Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Drawbridge
1761
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving with scratching, Sheet: 629 x 470 mm. (24 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
Plate: 549 x 422 mm. (21 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate VII from the series "Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'invenzione)"
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.7
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Etched in lower left, partially below image: "Piranesi f." On wall in center left background, behind and below four hanging hoops: illegible letters, "I S O [??] C" In upper left corner of image: "VII"
Markings: WM: none
